metaphor
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The web may be the most important metaphor of our time, from our web-of-life ecosystems to the World Wide Web that connects our devices.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
And the Cinderella metaphor comes in because Cinderella created a pumpkin into a chariot that became a fantasy world, and she lived it like I was living in the race car world at that time.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
Sadly, I’m afraid that’s the perfect metaphor for our time.
From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026
In Langbein’s comic, but also deadly serious, imagination, this is no mere metaphor.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
This was only the beginning of Billy’s miseries in the metaphor.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Vocabulary lists containing metaphor
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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